BoJ Joins ECB And Fed On Unlimited Print Train

Just as some do not believe in Santa, Christine Lagarde appeared to comment that she does not believe in currency wars (or competitive devaluation) this morning but sure enough, just a few hours later, Reuters rumors that the BoJ is about to join the Fed and ECB on the open-ended infinite print train. Sure enough, JPY is dumping (breaking recent highs on a stop-run), stocks are responding in their correlated carry way, and precious metals are surging (Silver +4.6% on the week) as fiat floods the world. It appears 2013 is the years of last last resort as the G-20 meme seems to be "if we can't reflate now, then it's all over." What is perhaps remarkable about the equity response is that everyone has known for two months that Japan plans on implementing a 2% inflation target. The only question has been "how" - and that it is only logical that the BOJ would use 'whatever means everyone else has used' - today merely confirmed this - knee-jerk algo response or sell-the-news? 

• *IMF'S LAGARDE SAYS SHE OBJECTED TO IDEA OF `CURRENCY WAR'
• *LAGARDE SAYS COMPETITIVE DEVALUATIONS AGAINST IMF PRINCIPLES
• *BOJ MAY PLEDGE OPEN-ENDED ASSET BUYING, REUTERS REPORTS
  

JPY dumping (higher is weaker vs USD in the chart)...

S&P 500 futures surged in their correlated fashion as JPY crosses all went risk-on...

and Gold surged...

Gold now leading the S&P since 1/3/13... +1.88% vs +1.36% from 01/03/13 close

Comments

[francis_sawyer]

Catfood bitchez! [go long]...

[CPL]

When that runs out.

Cat.

[Lukacko]

CHOO CHOOOOOO!

[Catch-22]

Printing  =  Inflation  =  Horse in Hamburgers…

Horse in beef: 
Tesco apologizes and refunds

While horse meat was found in beef steaks in Britain and Ireland, the UK distributor has issued an apology in the press. Tesco will reimburse customers.

http://bourse.lefigaro.fr/indices-actions/actu-conseils/le-scandale-alim...

[busted by the b...]

Horse in Hamburgers…

Don't worry about it; chain-weighted inflation has it covered.

[francis_sawyer]

I'll have the 'Secretariat' burger with a side of 'Sea Biscuits' please...

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Edit: Junks?... That was funny as shit!

[Orly]

meh

[francis_sawyer]

**ck you & the HAMBURGER you rode in on...

~~~

Now THAT was funny!

[Orly]

It's a stretch but the "rode in on" wins by a nose.

Now THAT was funnier-er!

[trav777]

WTF FTW!!!!

[Itch]

They are called Shergar burgers...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergar

[Poetic injustice]

Already happening, the cat part:

http://travel.aol.co.uk/2013/01/15/1-000-cats-saved-from-chinese-restaur...

[Random_Robert]

mmmmm.... tasty pussy.

[slaughterer]

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7955331/confessions-of-a-former-bear-part-1

[CPL]

This is awesome.

[Flakmeister]

A good a place as any:

By Matt Taibbi Secrets and Lies of the Bailout

... To guarantee their soundness, all major banks are required to keep a certain amount of reserve cash at the Fed. In years past, that money didn't earn interest, for the logical reason that banks shouldn't get paid to stay solvent. But in 2006 – arguing that banks were losing profits on cash parked at the Fed – regulators agreed to make small interest payments on the money. The move wasn't set to go into effect until 2011, but when the crash hit, a section was written into TARP that launched the interest payments in October 2008.

In theory, there should never be much money in such reserve accounts, because any halfway-competent bank could make far more money lending the cash out than parking it at the Fed, where it earns a measly quarter of a percent. In August 2008, before the bailout began, there were just $2 billion in excess reserves at the Fed. But by that October, the number had ballooned to $267 billion – and by January 2009, it had grown to $843 billion. That means there was suddenly more money sitting uselessly in Fed accounts than Congress had approved for either the TARP bailout or the much-loathed Obama stimulus. Instead of lending their new cash to struggling homeowners and small businesses, as Summers had promised, the banks were literally sitting on it.

Today, excess reserves at the Fed total an astonishing $1.4 trillion."The money is just doing nothing," says Nomi Prins, a former Goldman executive who has spent years monitoring the distribution of bailout money.

Nothing, that is, except earning a few crumbs of risk-free interest for the banks. Prins estimates that the annual haul in interest­ on Fed reserves is about $3.6 billion – a relatively tiny subsidy in the scheme of things, but one that, ironically, just about matches the total amount of bailout money spent on aid to homeowners. Put another way, banks are getting paid about as much every year for not lending money as 1 million Americans received for mortgage modifications and other housing aid in the whole of the past four years.

[ParkAveFlasher]

This is what happens when "money" is reduced to a book entry, and restricted to being essentially valueless except as a physical record / denominator of some far-off exchange.  

This is what happens when you exclude value from a trade intermediary. 

This is what happens when third parties are corrupt.

[Sophist Economicus]

Yup, this continues to confirm my bias that Tabbi is a shill and doesn't understand rudimentary economics

Prins is a know, self-confessed shill, so no surprises in his remarks

[rodocostarica]

Yeah and Tiabbi thinks the Tea Party started with Santelli's famous rage piece rather than the Ron Paul Tea Party Fundraiser in December 07. Some good journalistic research.

[A. Magnus]

Nomi Prins is a WOMAN. If you can't get at least THAT right then the rest of your 'analysis' is questionable at best...

[Orly]

Busted!

[trav777]

why TF would the banks (or anyone else) LEND ANYTHING to "struggling homeowners"??!

A struggling homeowner=person in default who doesn't really OWN anything except a big capital loss on a mccrapbox made of particle board.

NO aid to homeowners, NO aid to gd'd banks either

[Mentaliusanything]

If that $1.4 Trillion ever breaks out into the real World, then Ben's ass is going to pucker tighter than a Fishes bumhole.

It's not something I want to think about, least I start heavy drinking

[Its_the_economy...]

Goldf surge couldn't be related to the 7 years needed by the Fed to cover Germany's Gold Call.

[busted by the b...]

Yes, but it's all pieces of a whole.

Debt.

[hooligan2009]

you betcha...now watch the unwind of all the rehypothecation in the collateral markets over the next three years...gold to 2500..well first..then buzz lightyear kicks in

[MillionDollarBoner_]

"Christine Lagarde appeared to comment that she does not believe in currency wars (or competitive devaluation) this morning..."

Christine Lagarde does not believe in big fat hairy cocks either...but she sure as hell has got one ;o) 

[CPL]

Biggest clit you've ever seen with huge meat curtains.

[MillionDollarBoner_]

...and its own ecosystem.

It's like a rainforest in there...

Edit: and while we are on it, those are not meatflaps, dude, they are cojones...;o)

[CPL]

lol...nice

[trav777]

wat

[francis_sawyer]

 Twat

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There ~ fixed it...

[Terp]

Ok, this went from lol to ewww in three posts.

Well done gentlemen...

[pods]

Wow CPL that one was quite visual.

In fact, I had to see how a normal person would react so I copied it and sent it to Mrs. pods.

:)

pods

[hooligan2009]

along the lines of "show us your growler" and other un PC things I have heard people shout at strip clubs..um other people told me they heard people shout I mean

[semperfi]

Which one is going to be the first to go Zimbabwe and print a $100Trillion note ???  Bets ?

[CPL]

Japan, they are almost there already.

[hooligan2009]

japan is about to print its first quadrillion of yen debt...worth less than (non) radio-active toilet paper, but there you go

[francis_sawyer]

Doesn't work that way in this system...

~~~

Can't you see?... The mythical "$100 Trillion Note" is just 100 electronic entries of $1 Trillion dollars each [which then, the PD's hold on deposit at the Fed & collect interest off of]... Then ~ they incrementally divvy it up amongst their cronies, who venture out in the world and buy up all the PHYSICAL STUFF they can find...

When the last atom of "stuff" has been procured [in a race with the Chinese who are doing the same]... Then the game is over...

Your only interest in the game is to decide what kind of 'special sauce' is needed to make your catfood taste like a gourmet meal...

[Cognitive Dissonance]

"BoJ Joins ECB And Fed On Unlimited Print Train"

That would explain the sudden woodie in Gold and Silver.

[MillionDollarBoner_]

*LAGARDE SAYS COMPETITIVE DEVALUATIONS AGAINST IMF PRINCIPLES

The IMF has principles?!?

Hoocudanode?

[Sudden Debt]

yes they do!

Principle 1: take care of your own
Principle 2: your own will take care of you
Principle 3: don't have more than 3 principles.

[SAT 800]

Actually, I think principle number three is "never piss in your wastebasket when you can use your neighbors"; but I agree with you "in principle" !

[edb5s]

Beat me to it.

[hooligan2009]

LAGARDE PULLS A STRAUSS KAHN!

(his new job probably)

[Sudden Debt]

I just sold my gold calls for a nice 45% profit :)

let's not forget that tomorrow it's the 19th... option exp. day.

[MillionDollarBoner_]

Dude...tomorrow is the 18th where I'm sat and OpExp is on the 26th.

Or is I crayzee?

[CPL]

On the other side of the world it is always the next day.

mind = blown

[Orly]

Or, as my brother would say, "It's five o'clock somewhere."

[SAT 800]

I just covered my Jap. Yen Short contract for 5312.50$; for one contract ! The thing was on there for a month; I probably should have left it. Pray that Silver gets back above $33 SOON; i'm sitting on a Mar.'contract for $33 and change; LONG ! And I'm feeling the pain. Yours. Mine. Everybodys. Ouch. Come on somebody buy some silver, it's good for you.

[fonzannoon]

thats rough man. this move is total crap. metals going nowhere. i would not be surprised if they both have negaive years this year. this is gonna be a big fight. they want people thinking the market is the way to go. why bother with metals when you can cruise control higher with some stawks.

[Going Loco]

When you have to start praying it's time to stop trading. God don't give no heed to traders' prayers.

[SAT 800]

I've been outraded by a robotic Mr. Potatoe Head; oh the humanity !

[Orly]

Or...

you can put the blame where it really belongs...

[busted by the b...]

"This aggression will not stand!"

or

Fiat money is RAPIDLY losing any pretense of meaning.

[SAT 800]

Talk is cheap. Couldn't you afford to buy an odd million $ or so of silver? If somebody doesn't get the price back up by the third week in March; I"m going to be so screwed. I hate making losses.

[Jason T]

I'd love to see Japan's bond market collapse from this Faustian deal.  

[tooriskytoinvest]

WORLD DOLLAR PANIC IMMINENT? There Is A Currency War Raging World-Wide And Masses Close To Realizing Their Money Is Being Destroyed

http://investmentwatchblog.com/world-dollar-panic-imminent-there-is-a-cu...

[Smuckers]

I am reminded of:

Tartlets....tartlets....tartlets?  The word has lost all meaning.

[PUD]

So how much for a nearly extinct radioactive bluefin tuna now?

[Quinvarius]

Lagarde is one of the most ignorant, empty headed, dreamers the CB set has to offer.  She is a complete clown who will say anything she is told to say.  She is happy to go shopping once a week and cannot be bothered to actually understand the business of banking.  

[SAT 800]

But she has a nice ecologically correct French car, a bicycle; I saw a picture of her riding it in Paris. So she couldn't be all bad.

[ivana]

yes but you forgot that she's completely gray. In many cultures this is sign of ultimate wisdom.

Just check the pics of all main players... everyone's 100% grey hair ... obama is joining next ... than on the end of his mandate MSM will show pics before/after with conclusion that he had a very hard time :-)

[rwe2late]

Actually, it is you who do not understand.

The CBs represent a cartel, a syndicate with the primary goal

of enriching and empowering their inner cabal.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/17/how-central-banking-works/

[ivana]

oooo yeah, next reset is really close .

than again same old printing printing ...................... until all valuable assets and collaterals disappear into veeeery foggy unclear ownership of ????

[fonzannoon]

what a fkin joke. all of it.

[Peter Pan]

When people realise that they have to sweat each week to put a few dollars away while Dimon, Blankfein and others are given free money with which to play, then perhaps there might be a moment of enlightenment for those helpless souls who get a negative return after taxes and inflation.

This game still has far to go.

[monopoly]

And, the icing on the cake...Take a look at those interest rates. Benny better get those inkjets going with a new song.

[youngman]

On one side we have the debt ceiling in the USA.....on the other side we have this...open ended QE ???? for many countries...to me there are two groups...those that QE....and the rest of the world trying to get away and out of the paper trash.....there is going to be some pissed off people and countries...as they see their hopes and dreams and economies fall because of this crap...and its all political...its not economic

[busted by the b...]

What is this word "economic" you speak of?

or

Nobody cares about economics anymore; it was too dismal.

[rwe2late]

 give me that old-time "political economy"

used before they wanted to explain away the distribution of wealth and power

as being an unavoidable result of the laws of supposed "economic science".

[Mike in GA]

It appears 2013 is the years of last last resort as the G-20 meme seems to be "if we can't reflate now, then it's all over."

We'll KNOW it's over if Krugman is called into the regime in 2013.

Krugman's oft-stated policy of monetary 'infinity & beyond'* exemplifies the idiocy of academic hubris.

Even a caveman knows debt on this scale, for these purposes, is disastrous.

*apologies to Buzz Lightyear 

[rwe2late]

Bizarrely, the more dollars the US "prints",

the more dollars foreign banks must hold to support their export economy (their export oligarchy) by preventing their currency from appreciating.

That supports US profligacy and militarism, and also helps suppress inflation until such time as there may be a rush for the exit.

[Orly]

Abe:  Wolf!  Wolf!

Hey, wait a minute.  I said that already...

Bear!  Bear!

(Gotta love idiot robots...)

:/

[mdtrader]

Crucial time for the USD/JPY. If it makes a weak new high for the rally and can't follow through above 90, then a significant correction could be on the cards. I wouldn't be surprised to see it give back at least half of the gains from the 78-90 rally. 

[Orly]

Word is a major American bank bought a yard (another one of those words I've never used before.  It means a billion dollars notional...holy smokes!) worth of USD on JPY early this morning at 88.

The Japanese are looking to tank this rascal before the BoJ meeting so that Nomura and Mizuho can make bank on the rocket when the BoJ announces a half-trillion dollar (U$D...) global bond-buying program at their meeting on Monday, hence the jawboning earlier this week.

The USDJPY just broke 90, so it is clear that the real currency wars are going on right here in my basement.  The overnight is sure going to be interesting.  Get you some No-Doz.

I wouldn't be totally surprised to see it move back to the Daily Pivot at 88.5 before shooting the moon all the way to 95 next week or the week after.  Okay, okay maybe at least to the first resistance at 89...

Crazy times, eh?

Wishing you some green pips!

:D

[Clowns on Acid]

Just buy equities and forget about any further chin music....Ben and his coterie of pencilled neck facsists will try to prove that they are "right"by printing until there ain't no more print to print with.

Ben will be proved wrong, however could be many more points higher from here.

[hooligan2009]

so far so good, so far so good (as the blonde falling from the high rise kept telling herself)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-14/yen-soars-following-econ-minist...

[HeavydutyMexica...]

AAAAAND they're off...!